Shift From More to Less

Entire careers are built managing unnecessary mass. But this is the opportunity. While everyone else adds mass to the system, removing it creates an unfair advantage. The lighter you are, the faster you move.

Removing what shouldn't exist creates more value than any addition could.

(2) Make it faster to get what you need,

Morten Hansen offers an alternative way to do exceptional work:

“Instead of asking how many tasks you can tackle given your working hours, ask how many you can ditch given what you must do to excel.”

what Oliver Burkeman calls the efficiency trap. I read about this idea in his book Four Thousand Weeks, which is a critique of productivity culture and isn’t strictly related to AI or anything like it, but maybe you’ll see the connection too. “Rendering yourself more efficient,” he writes, “either by implementing various productivity techniques or... See more